'District 9' Uses Alien Invasion as Apartheid Metaphor

L.A. Weekly | August 14, 2009
With its corrugated tin sheds and abject poverty, District 9 stands in for the township settlements where more than a million South African blacks still live without basic human services, two decades after the end of apartheid.

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